Star Wars Cake

I am forever indebted to Chef Max and Fish Mama for this cake. After discussing my sliding castle cake last week on Twitter, Chef Max gave me two excellent cake decorating tips, straws and cold.

Apparently people who decorate cakes more often than the 7 times a year (like me) use straws to keep gravity from wrecking their cakes, who knew?

I found the idea for this Star Wars cake in Fish Mama’s eBook Pretty Cook Cakes. My son looked over this book about a hundred times and finally decided on the Star Wars cake for his 7th birthday.

This cake was so easy to make, I couldn’t believe it when I finished it in under an hour. The best part about it is that you use canned frosting! I love my butter cream frosting, but with everything going on around here, canned frosting was a life saver!

My cake decorating confidence has been restored and my soon to be seven year-old is already in love with his cake.

This cake uses three mini muffin loaf pans, one round pan, and one cake cooked in a cereal bowl. The rocks are candy and I used red frosting in a tub that you can find in the baking aisle for the lava.

The nice thing about this cake is that you don’t want your frosting smooth, so even a child could make this cake with great results! In fact, my kids helped make most of this Star Wars cake.

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Wait a sec -that’s not the cake sitting in my house – my son’s cake has Obi Wan, Padme, Darth Maul and, Qui Gon in a huge battle. The cake above only has Qui Gon and Darth Maul. I think your readers would appreciate the incredible melee you created after you took those pics.

I used straws to hold my castle cake together and it was the only thing that held the tourrets up. I had no idea professionals used straws! Your star wars cake looks great and I have a little boy that would love that. Now to remember it in October and I will be set.

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